{"id":140,"date":"2021-02-20T20:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:01:14","slug":"two-parental-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Two Parental Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Two parental figures turned away.<br><br>Smooth, frictionless.<br><br>Blank walls.<br><br>Immovable.<br><br>Immobile.<br><br>Quiet as death.<br><br>Neither speaking.<br>Neither listening.<br><br>Unavailable.<br><br>Unavoidable.<br><br>Until I walk away.<br><br>Out from underneath.<br><br>Out from in between.<br><br>Into silence.<br><br>Into a place where I can breathe.<br><br>Where I can speak.<br><br>Where I can hear my voice.<br><br>Like an echo.<br><br>Trailing behind me.<br><br>A wasted sound.<br>           Of words no longer spoken.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>August 8, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two parental figures turned away.Smooth, frictionless.Blank walls.Immovable.Immobile.Quiet as death.Neither speaking.Neither&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=140\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Parental Figures<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,2],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-11","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}